Stewart Lee

I saw him at the Union Chapel too and didn't laugh once. He and Jo Brand were the night's big names and neither was funny imo. I like Jo Brand though.

I also understand that ‘Stewart Lee the stand up’ is a character, distinct from Stewart lee the writer. But even so... still disappointing.

And aside from the GC stuff, I did think this time that he was becoming a little bit of a pastiche of himself. Although with SL it’s hard to tell whether that’s intentional or not.

I saw the show the other day and the Ricky Gervais transphobia thing was one tiny comment. He was pretending to be Gervais pulling his jokes out of his arse and flinging them at people: “take that, the transgender community. Take that, mongs!”

That was literally all it was.

Then later on he does a bit about political correctness and implies that the older generation are thick because they don’t understand unisex toilets.

I have loved Stewart Lee’s comedy for years. Big fan. But I’ll be honest, I was disappointed this time. I really thought he’d understand where women were coming from with gender criticism but his latest routine hints that he hasn’t thought about it at all from Women’s point of view, or he doesn’t give a shit.

I liked Frankie Boyle’s later, more apocalyptic stuff (after he’d grown out of trying and failing to make ironic jokes about disabled children). But I went to see him live, trying out new material for his TV show and one of his jokes was almost verbatim something like: “it’s mad how people have transgender people, as if men are going to put on a dress just so they can go into the toilets and wank at someone.”

And I was just sitting there thinking, err that LITERALLY has already happened and is a new thing that women now have to be afraid of on top of all the other predatory shit we already have to be afraid of, and, sorry if this seems ‘snowflake-y’ to you, but it’s not funny.

I thought of all people that Stewart Lee would be intelligent and insightful enough to grasp it but apparently not.

Well, it's fair to say Stewart is not a fan of the site and there was much mirth from the intellectually elite and politically astute every time it was mentioned.

He referenced Mumsnet posts back in his test shows end of last year
Not a new thing

So you're not Stewart Lee starting this thread to get more material for tonight's show then.

Correct Occasional
Same old, same old, dressed up as new and enlightened.

Closdes I think you're on to something there..

Sounds dreadful, handsoff.
So he's been reading the thread (I've never heard of him btw).
And what a coincidence that this thread appears to be the OP's very first post on MN.

Again.

Seem to be men, talking about and with other men, about which men - in their opinion - qualify for womanhood.

Bollocks to that.

Stewart told the audience he's been reading the thread.

That's how I know.

He also referenced Mumsnet throughout the night.

Yeh a lot of women by me were howlinh about the locking women in cars, rape and cunt.
jokes.

I guess I didn't understand the irony.

Saw him in the autumn. Cried with laughter.

I don't know who Stuart Lee is. Googled him and I'm none the wiser.

I am finding it faintly amusing though that he's chosen Ricky TWAW Gervais as his target though.

As far as I can tell, having vehemently denied that certain, specific chaps were actually women when demanding ballwaxing or entry to women's sports,
Gervais' latest stance became something akin to OF COURSE TWAW, although only the most gentlemanly of men were allowed to be women obviously.
Or something.

I'm thinking there's perhaps a scale of gentlemanly behaviour where you accidentally foxtrot past the point of no return to find you've mistakenly entered womanhood.

And Stewart's been reading this thread.

Women's rights are so low brow though.

I saw Ben Elton earlier this year and he gets it. He gets feminism and why women's rights need protecting.

I have watched all.of Stweart's shows on TV and was a real fan, but I found tonight's show appalling in terms of the rape jokes and women hating.

Just seen his show and I can confirm that his scathing of Mumsnet users was peppered in between jokes about rape, Ricky Gervais' transgenderism and right wing suburbia who don't understand 'unisex' toilets or 'gender' (I think you mean mixed sex and sex).

The audience was two woke males per female and I found him worse than the Bernard Manning character this so called progressive Guardianista parodies.

I'm so disappointed that he's just another misogynist that believes he has the right to give away my rights and to joke about rape.

I've never found him funny. Smug, didactic and like some kind of ghost of Ben Elton from 1984. Except at the time Ben Elton and the Comic Strip people really were in opposition and going against the grain. Stewart Lee is just establishment.

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My husband watches his stand up. I have never found him either funny or interesting. I find too contrived.

Ricky Gervais seems more natural but I don’t like him either.

Give me Ross Noble any day!

His dig at Ricky Gervais was over-long and far too laboured

Does he have any 'jokes' which are not tortuously overworked? That's his thing.

I really love him but it's not going to be most people's humour. No surprise if he's uberwoke, but he's not preaching and he's very aware of his own smugliberalmetropolianeliteness.

It seems that most comedians don’t like Gervais. He’s done very well and it’s much more popular to kick up than kick down.

They probably have the same additional material writers.